Item category 1: Thrillers & Crime

Marchfield Square was meant to be a haven from the outside world. A place for those who need somewhere safe from their pasts, or who could otherwise not afford to stay in the city they call home. That was Celeste Van Duren's plan. One of her tenants being murdered in his own kitchen, and the poli...

Rhonda and Barbara 'Baby' Bird are half-sisters - and full partners in their Los Angeles detective agency. They agree on nothing. Rhonda, a former attorney, takes a by-the-book approach to solving crimes, while teenage Baby relies on her street smarts. But when they take a controversial case of a...

When Detective Kim Stone is woken before dawn because local journalist Tracy Frost wants to show her a message, she's not impressed. But her blood turns cold when she reads the note. She has 36 hours to follow a trail set by an anonymous challenger. If she fails, people will die. Kim's gut tells ...

Jane Smith is running out of time. Her repeat client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. He says he's being set up - again. Despite the odds, Jane believes him. Now she must moun...

Young Cassie Booth goes missing on her paper round. Then her bloodstained jacket is found in a boathouse belonging to Karl Wilding - but there is little evidence against him. Meanwhile, a routine visit by Detective Inspector Pat North to appease persistent complainer Stephen Warrington soon spira...

Fifteen years ago, Sara Linton's life changed forever when a celebratory night out ended in a violent attack that tore her world apart. Since then, Sara has remade her life. A successful doctor, engaged to a man she loves, she has finally managed to leave the past behind her. Until one evening, o...

Identical and brutal assaults on three women. One woman survives to give a detailed description of her attacker. The police arrest a suspect, Damon Morton, confident he is their man. But three of his employees admit to the crimes, and Morton's wife and girlfriend each provide him with an alibi. T...

A young couple with a baby on the way moves to an old Victorian house in rural, upstate New York. Strange happenings contribute to their disintegrating marriage -- and to their terrifying descent into the darker side of human nature.

Late one summer, the town of Monta Clare is shattered by the abduction of local teenager Joseph 'Patch' Macauley. Nobody more so than Saint Brown, who is broken by her best friend's disappearance. Soon, she will eat, sleep, breathe, only to find him. Patch lies in a pitch-black room, all alone fo...

Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son's bully and the hei...

When Elijah suggests going to OneMind to celebrate their ten-year anniversary, Anna is dubious about getting the implant that will allow them to hear each other's thoughts. However, she's eager to please him, and to make up for the fact she can't give him what he really wants, she agrees to take ...

When Elijah suggests going to OneMind to celebrate their ten-year anniversary, Anna is dubious about getting the implant that will allow them to hear each other's thoughts. However, she's eager to please him, and to make up for the fact she can't give him what he really wants, she agrees to take ...

An explosive portrait of Dirty South revenge, triple-dealing, and crimes of passion as a suburban mom's high-end criminal past comes back to haunt her, endangering her children -- and propelling her into a high-stakes game she remembers all too well.

After a devastating experience in Darfur strips Alex Baines, former rising star of the State Department, of his security clearances, he is faced with two choices: spend the rest of his career in visa-stamping limbo or move to the private sector. On the verge of resigning, he receives a call from ...

Having travelled back in time, Constance Greene confronts Manhattan's most dangerous serial killer, Enoch Leng, bartering for her sister's life a but she is betrayed and turned away empty-handed, incandescent with rage. As Agent Pendergast focuses on the unstable Constance in her fanatical quest ...

Anna Ogilvy hasn't opened her eyes for four years. Not since that night at The Farm when she was found asleep with a kitchen knife in her hand, her clothes bloodstained, the bodies of her two best friends lying close. She'd committed the crime of the century - but nothing and no-one could wake he...

When a painting vanishes from a maritime museum and a dead body is found nearby the newly established Lockwood Antique Hunters Agency, Freya Lockwood and her Aunt Carole, are called to investigate. Following a lead that takes them aboard a glamorous antiques cruise sailing toward the Red Sea in J...

How far would you go for someone you love? Alison has an excellent relationship with her eighteen-year-old daughter. Lola is a hardworking, straight-A student, bound for university. They tell each other everything. Or so she thought. Lola has a secret: she's been sneaking off to meet her much old...

Join Amelia Peabody on her thrilling new expedition to the Valley of the Kings. Your Itinerary: Upper Egypt, 1907. A perilous adventure into antiquity with fiction's most beloved archaeologist and her captivating cohorts. Witness exotic scenery, craven tomb robbers, vengeful gods! Discover stolen...

When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north - to the vast forests surrounding the White Sea port of...

A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it's an "invisible" --someone traveling under a British passport. Virtually impossible to find before it's too late.The job falls to Liz Carlyle, the most resourceful counter terror agent in British intelligence. Tracking down this invis...

They said a mother knows best and I believed them. Was I wrong? It is supposed to be a dream. James and I have been trying for years. But now it is starting to feel like a nightmare. Doctors don't ask questions, or care about how you're feeling. They just tell you what to do. They never listen. M...

The final book in the Inspector Ramsay series. Marilyn Howes and her mother Kathleen are an inseparable duo, until one night Kathleen doesn't come home... Fifteen-year-old Marilyn turns up alone and frightened on Inspector Ramsay's doorstep, so he takes the young girl home to the isolated coastal...

What would you do if your childhood sweetheart was accused of murder? Justine Stone left her hometown in Essex eighteen years ago, and she hasn't looked back since. Married to Noah, with a beautiful house and a high-flying career as a barrister, she rarely thinks about her ex-boyfriend, Jake. Unt...

A trail of high-profile sniper victims across Northern Ireland. Rising tension over the US president's imminent visit. And the on-going bloody conflict driven by republican terrorists. Ex-CIA war crimes investigator Joe Johnson quickly realizes there's much more to it after he's called to Belfast...

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett, an everyman hero with a penchant for stepping into trouble, works with his resourceful wife and three daughters, and an outlaw falconer to protect Twelve Sleep country from hunters, ecoterrorists, cowboy hitmen, and rogue federal agents, among others.

It's almost summer in Southbourne and the ladies of the Charity Shop Detective Agency are ready for another season of sun, sea and . . . murder. Amongst the rows of charming brightly painted cabins, an elderly man's beach hut is set on fire in the middle of the night -- while he slept inside. By ...

Author Grady Green is having the worst best day of his life. Grady calls his wife to share some exciting news as she is driving home. He hears Abby slam on the brakes, get out of the car, then nothing. When he eventually finds her car by the cliff edge the headlights are on, the driver door is op...

On the Mongolian steppes a general in the People's Liberation Army stakes his career, and his life, on a GPS-free missile guidance system that will change the balance of power on the battlefield. In Bath a young Chinese woman has secured the affections of a young brainiac working on that very pro...

Five weeks ago Carly Drake stood at her grandfather's grave. Now she's burying Drake Trucking's top driver, and the cops have no leads on the hijacking or murder. Faced with bankruptcy, phone threats and the fear of failure, Carly has to team up with the last man she wants to owe -- Lincoln Cain....